Thane Hunt

@ChrisWordbox @elonmusk @TheHumanoidHub @GoingBallistic5 Freedom to operate can be gained by publishing information via other means. The only reason to patent it is so that you have the right to sue. They are squatters

@thanehunt @elonmusk @TheHumanoidHub @GoingBallistic5 They patent stuff so someone else doesn't - so they're free to use it. Optionality.

Scott Walter (@GoingBallistic5) explains Tesla Optimus' innovative rolling contact finger joints from the newly published patents.

@CarlSparre @elonmusk @TheHumanoidHub @GoingBallistic5 No he’s inviting copycats so he can sue them. It’s a hedging scheme.

@elonmusk @TheHumanoidHub @GoingBallistic5 Those who think Elon is in it for the money… If that were true, he could have easily let competitors go down this garden path.

@kandrey89 @elonmusk @TheHumanoidHub @GoingBallistic5 That’s not how freedom to operate works. A simple mainstream publication is prior art. It’s defensive filing, which is fine. But they need to drop the “holier than thou” narrative.

@thanehunt @elonmusk @TheHumanoidHub @GoingBallistic5 Because ideas come quick but pattens come slow, in the mean time engineers test the ideas and pick the best. You don’t work on something for 5 years and then patent the best version, by that time competition could copy it and file their own patents.

@JABMDgs @elonmusk @TheHumanoidHub @GoingBallistic5 That’s not how freedom to operate works. A simple mainstream publication is prior art.

@thanehunt @elonmusk @TheHumanoidHub @GoingBallistic5 They are open source. Tesla needs to patent their new ideas incase someone else patents them and doesn’t allow them to use their own system

@elonmusk @TheHumanoidHub @GoingBallistic5 If ‘patents are for losers’, then why are your people patenting dead-end concepts of all things? And there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the flexure concept (nor is it novel), but maybe execution missed the mark.

@TheHumanoidHub @GoingBallistic5 We already changed the design. This one didn’t actually work.

We are fitting to the shadow of a completed untracked control loop.

For dexterous robots, human visual trajectory data is being miscast as an ideal policy target. Humans can fold clothes with eyes shut. We moved to the right because we felt something slip. Most robots have no idea about the rigid and soft body interactions between their hands the world.

@PxSammm @ErenChenAI It’s absolutely a capability issue. Like we all have the original schematics for the Saturn V rocket, but where are all the rockets? Knowledge does not equal capability. I can’t argue this with you. I’m sorry.

@PxSammm @ErenChenAI Congrats!

The race ended before it got even started for this robot :(

@graftoverflow I do!

Who knows about patents?

You’re not thinking about end-to/end supply chain. Isn’t India still importing 70% of the chemicals for pharmaceuticals from China? This powers a global generics business. Also, almost no silicon fab in India, and the 28 nm tech there is insufficient for most modern applications. Nobody is independent, though many aspire to be. You can’t consider tech and economy separately.

@thanehunt @ErenChenAI Thanks. Most of Asia is in the same bracket. Which means aside from US, Europe, Canada who basically are fully-dependent on china for survival, rest of world (70% of humans on earth) uses chinese imports for cost-efficiency rather than as a fatal dependency.

@PxSammm @ErenChenAI I don’t follow, what does this have to do with Chinese manufacturing?

@thanehunt @ErenChenAI 😂You do realize that there are humans living OUTSIDE of the USA, right? You need to get out more. Also, it's not your ignorance - it's the confidence in your own ignorance that's laughable.

@PxSammm @ErenChenAI Almost everything is made in or at least touches Chinese supply chain. You don’t have to agree with me (I don’t care) but I would encourage you to do your own reading and see what kind of answers you might find.

@thanehunt @ErenChenAI 😂The first part is quite literally not true. The second part is also not true, but it's less laughable. If it's their robot that they designed, they could design it in ANY WAY they choose. But sadly, we all know it's not their design - more likely a Boston Dynamics' cheap copy.

New models every 24 hours! Things are about to get hot

@ErenChenAI This video is a fantastic demo on the need for a multimodal controller. A single line of code could cut power to the motors if the body passes an angle steeper than, say, 45°. Naïve, yes, but would’ve worked fine for this race and would not have cooked a $30K robot.

@ErenChenAI The amount of damage it took seems disproportionate to the impact.

@Filmantopia @NayanUnfiltered @ErenChenAI @grok Yeah, now it’s more about logical flow/object permanence. Visually, a lot of it looks essentially perfect to me.

@thanehunt @NayanUnfiltered @ErenChenAI @grok I hate that I can’t tell. I am a videographer and have begun augmenting my work with AI, including fully AI generated video, and it’s insane how good it is.

You’re actually better at determining this than Grok. It’s the little things, the bandanna falling and ending up exactly where you would expect. The circular arm piece rolling to the left, passing out out of the screen, and when the camera pulls out, it is still there. Lots of little details. My buggy human AI detector says this is 90% likely to be real. I only take away 10% because I can’t keep up with the rate of diffusion progress.

@ErenChenAI @grok check the authenticity of this video. Is this really from the world's first human vs. humanoid robot half-marathons, featuring 21km races in E-Town.

@TheHatman9 @ErenChenAI Yes, this was an example of lazy programming. if(pose.current = ‘horizontal’){stop;} This should override all models, loops, and other behavior. An internal e-stop, a reflexive analog for self preservation. :)

@thanehunt @ErenChenAI Yeah that's what happens when your PID loop doesn't take in to account failure modes, and continues to try to overcorrect. That robot was thinking if I only put more and more and more force into my kicks I will straighten back up.

@PxSammm @ErenChenAI Everything you’re wearing, probably came from China, most of the parts of your car, certainly all the fasteners that hold your house together. It’s not because they’re Chinese, it’s because that’s just a really fragile design I guess.

@thanehunt @ErenChenAI You have not taken into account the build quality of chinese products